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Hey, I haven’t posted on here in ages and Wordpress has changed a lot since I last did! Everything is so shiny and 2.5!

Maybe I’ll do something else here in the near future but here is a picture for you in the meantime:

Ok, so surprise surprise the t shirt didn’t get added because it wasn’t good enough (read: too crass). However the good news is that Han is home!

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Will it get added? I somehow doubt it. Here’s the full view:

You may (or may not) remember a blathering post I made on here about how shitty my router is. Well, my new one arrived the other day and it has been nothing but plain sailing. Fuck you in the face BT. If you are really interested it is a Linksys WAG200G, or in picture form it’s one of these:

Rather exciting as you can see. Good news is that it works.

I’ve also got a couple of new toys. Firstly there was the router, but my latest is this really cool freeview usb stick for my computer so I can watch digital telly on it using the miracles of Windows Media Centre. I always wondered what that was for… You might be thinking it’s a silly idea to use slow old USB when i could put a PCI card in but the truth is that i’ve run out of space with my DUAL GRAPHICS CARDS ahehahahaha.

Other big news is that i’m almost totally moved into my new bedrooms above the garage. Cool thing about this is that I get a living room and a bedroom next to eachother so it’s like a mini house but without the kitchen or bathroom. Only down side of it being like a real house is that I get all the moving in rubbish which comes with… well… moving in. I’ve been living amongst unpacked boxes and sleeping on a sofa bed for like 3 weeks or something! Still, it will be worth it in the end. I’ll keep you posted on this super exciting news! :trex:

Last Saturday was George’s 18th birthday and in true Essex lout style we went out on the town and got totally shit faced, especially George. He had found this drink called an Irish Car Bomb on the internet somewhere and decided to try it out. The recipie is as follows:

1. 1 shot of Irish whisky in a pint glass
2. top it up almost to the top with Guinness
3. float a shot of Bailies on the top
4. Throw up

The whole thing cost about £8 so he won’t be doing that again, it tasted like Guinness milk shake which was cool but the Bailies curdled which is not cool. Whole night lasted till 2am when George was too pissed to drink any more and went home. Good night out, here’s some photographic evidence:

Great.

Miscellaneous news is as follows: I’m still enjoying college, even if I know most of the stuff they have tried to teach me so far. Oh well! Team Fortress 2 is totally kick ass, especially as I can now stay connected for long enough to play (god bless you router). Max is off to uni on Sunday and i’ll miss him, boo hoo :(. Han seems to be having a great time in Africa and should be starting out on her main journey next week. I miss her a lot :huggle:

Love to you all.

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Wordpress 2.3 has arrived so I might fuck everything up while i’m upgrading. This should be fun, See you on the other side!

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It’s an ‘effing miracle! It worked! If you find anything wrong then post it in a comment so I can fix.

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I’m currently using the Bt Home Hub “router” at home as my old voyager2100 broke down and this one came with the new package or something. Anyway, it was fairly mediocre for a while which I can live with but then gradually got worse and worse, cutting out randomly and most irritatingly it disconnects me from tf2 most times I try to play, unassigns everyone on the network’s IPs and stops anyone from accessing the control panel. Cheers BT you bunch of FUCKS. I’ve got a new proper router on the way but it wont arrive until tuesday at the earliest so no hardcore gaming for a while… how annoying.

Golf on the other hand is going quite well. I’m starting to get semi accurate and can now either wallop it really far in a straight line, or chip it into a 3 yard radius. Woo! I’d say I’m well on my way to becoming a pro.

Media Defender, the peer-to-peer anti piracy “league” designed to prevent file sharing has been dealt a pretty fucking hefty blow today. Recently there have been instances of them releasing fake items in the hope of catching people but it appears there is mutiny aboard HMS MediaDefender. One of their own employees has leaked the source code for the application which can be found here on thepiratebay.org for free download. In the past few days leaked email conversations and even VOIP calls have surfaced so it looks like the RIAA aren’t as invincible as they think. Suck my big one, anti-piracy pirates.

So, like I said yesterday i’m totally getting into this game now and we’ve even got a little w&b group going. Here’s some stats about me:

here’s a link to my steam ID and a link to all my TF2 stats. This game comes with the Orange Box and if you preorder before October you get on the beta, which equals an extra month of playtime before the proper release on October 10th (provided they make the deadline, which they won’t.) My only gripe so far is the lack of linux dedicated server but that should appear tomorrow ish.

So, it’s been months and months since I last wrote anything on here and I really forgot all about it. While i’ve been away i’ve played WoW, got to level 70 and done some hardcore raiding then I got kicked out of my guild and decided it was a good time to quit. So I have. No longer addicted to the thing i’ve started a mechanic’s course at Colchester Institute which started tonight, however i’ve missed out a lot of stuff in between so I better fill you in first.

I’m still laid up to an extent with the old CFS but I have felt like i’ve been getting better. Although I wasn’t able to complete my Eng Lit A level exam (or even take it) due to anxiety problems, I did get almost full marks on my coursework which i’m really really proud of. This year i’m continuing and doing both exams so I can get one decent A level. Good news is that I already have two Es in Geography and Government and Politics. Shazam! As well as that academic success i’ve started seeing a counsellor about my anxiety issues which seems to be helping but it’s early days yet. I’ll give you another update in 6 months time and tell you then! Another big achievement for me was that this summer I went on holiday without my parents. That might not seem like a big deal to you but last year I barely managed to get to Italy with the family because of the anxiety and worry so this is quite a big deal. I went for a week with Dave and Owen which probably made things easier as they are two of my best friends. As well as the holiday I took a trip to London to meet my Geek Friends, get lashed and stay in a hotel. That went really well apart from the incident I won’t talk about, and like going to Cornwall it was a huge step for me and something i’m proud of achieving.

This summer has also been one where i’ve really thought hard about where i’m going in the future as everyone’s started leaving for uni again, however this time Max is off too and it’s going to be really strange to not have him 15 minutes away after 19 years. Still, I can always spend 4 hours on the train and go see him! Owen is also going to be a lot further out of touch, as he is moving to Florence as part of his Art History degree. I can’t wait to go see him and just thinking that makes me feel good as, like with the holiday, I wouldn’t have even dreamed of making that kind of trip a year ago. One big gap in my life at the moment is Han. This summer we celebrated 2 years together and now she’s gone on a tour of Africa for 3 months. It was pretty sudden but something she really needed to do and i’m so pleased she has finally got away, she’ll also be all fit and tanned when she gets back at Christmas so it’s not all bad! Dave’s not gone anywhere, still living 5 minutes down the road and still trying to get Winston back on the road. He’s got a full time job at a bakery in town which he is so happy with and because of the hours (4am-12pm) it means he’s around in the late afternoons so we can go out and do manly things together. His lady is off to uni this year too so we can mope about together.

This brings me neatly back to where I started. Going into this (school) year I feel a lot more positive than the last one. I feel like there’s something to look forward to and I feel like things are starting to look up. I mean, sometimes I do get a bit down but everyone picks me back up again and it’s hard to stay feeling like that for long. This is a new me.

I’ve also started playing Team Fortress 2, we’ve waiting fucking long enough for the damn thing so i’m SO on the beta!

This time it’s mine. And it’s going to be fun. Murder mystery style. Photos and stuff after it.